Fresh off working with Guy Ritchie on Rocknrolla (due this October), mega-producer Joel Silver says he’s tapped the British director/major Madonna fan to see through his long gestating comic book adaptation of Sgt. Rock. AICN got the succinct scoop…
Moriarty: But you do that with properties. You stick by them, like SGT. ROCK. You have developed that for a long time now…
Joel: I’m going to make that. I’m going to make that very soon. With Guy Ritchie, I think.
Moreover, Sgt. Rock screenwriter John Cox, who also adapted Virgin Comics’ wartime-set Virulents due in 2009, has posted Silver’s statement on his MySpace. Years ago, Sgt. Rock was planned as a big budget Schwarzenegger vehicle, and last year Cox briefly threw around Kiefer Sutherland’s name for the title role, but no actor has been set. What’s cool about the film is that it will apparently keep the comics’ gruff World War II setting instead of going the Iraq-update route, and rather than an origins story, Cox has said it will focus on Rock after he’s seen considerable combat/bloodshed.
Not sure what I think of Ritchie’s involvement. He’s never tackled a project this large and multi-faceted, but his early films have cockney flare for days. What do you think?
May 12th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I can almost see who he’ll cast in the title role…. *cough*Statham*cough*
May 12th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I thought he died after Snatch and Madonna was just using his body as a means to feed her kids with?
May 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I am expecting something good on this one.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
thank god, I thought he was really going to remake Dirty Dozen…that would have been horrible considering Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards is pretty much the same movie…
I wounder why Arnold never made it?
May 12th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I only know of Sgt. Rock from my father’s old comic covers and he seems like a single-minded nazi hating super soilder that was inspiration for every overblown action movie. I love me some overblown action movies (’specially against them nazis) but isn’t this just like a wolfenstein movie? I know he was in comics but this lacks the “comic book” appeal (i.e. the element of the fantastic) that something like Captain America had. Feels like they’re throwing a bone to Guy since his original marterial is growing stale.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Sgt. Rock is essentially going to be Commando.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Sgt. Rock was a bad-ass. He was like.. like.. Nick Fury and his Howlin’ Commandos.
I personally liked the Srgt. when he was in ‘Nam.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
They should have Sgt. Slaughter in it.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
is this movie really necessary?
May 12th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
As long as Madonna has nothing to do with it. The things people do for love. I cant get past the fact he let her helm a movie in to the ground.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:28 am
DO NOT WANT.
Guy Ritchie’s a talentless hack. He hasn’t made one good film, only a couple that stupid English people (ie football hooligans) and Americans who have a thing for cockney accents like.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:30 am
I dug Ritchie’s Nike commercial so I have the faith again.